The Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council had an important task: to attract foreign investment into Nigeria. It had a line in the federal budget, a sought-after office inside the Federal Secretariat in Abuja, where ministries are housed, and a website on the official government of Nigeria domain. There was only one hitch. It did not officially exist.
How a made-up agency found its way into Nigeria’s budgetft.comAlleged head of fictional investment council was allocated government funding and met top officials